Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGThe result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job?
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Quality’ means what will sell and do a customer some good – at least try to.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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